2010 Olympic Games

Gretchen Bleiler defeated Kelly Clark for the second time this month, setting up a potential showdown in the halfpipe at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver in February.

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Bleiler Again Tops Clark, Setting Up Potential Showdown

A spokeswoman for Shaun White’s snowboard sponsor, Burton, said White had experienced no ill effects from striking his head on the lip of the halfpipe Friday night during practice at the Winter X Games.

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White Is Said to Be O.K.; Snowboard Cross Athlete Is Injured

Anton Kushnir of Belarus was as close to perfection as it gets on a day Canada made World Cup freestyle skiing history by failing to reach the finals in men’s or women’s aerials for the first time.

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Kushnir, Li crowned aerials champs

In the first of 14 games away from Vancouver- eight before the Olympics and six afterwards – the Canucks snuck out a 5-3 win over the lowly Toronto Maple Leafs at the Air Canada Centre on Saturday night.

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Canucks’ top line steals spotlight in 3rd

After Chandra Crawford won Olympic gold in cross-country skiing four years ago, she decided to use her “few seconds of fame or pseudo-fame” to encourage girls to go out, play, compete and keep on doing it into their teens and beyond.

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Fast, furious and female

Maria Riesch of Germany won Saturday’s final World Cup downhill race prior to the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, ending American Lindsey Vonn’s win streak in the discipline at six races.

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Riesch ends Vonn winning streak

Kevin Reynolds of Coquitlam, B.C., capped a strong showing by Canada at the ISU Four Continents figure skating championships on Saturday with a bronze medal in men’s competition.

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Reynolds captures bronze at Four Continents

Armin Zoeggeler of Italy clinched his ninth World Cup luge title on the track where he won gold at the 2006 Olympics.

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Italy’s Zoeggeler wins 9th luge title

NEW YORK (AP) — Bernard Lagat wasn’t worried.

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Lagat wins record 8th Wanamaker Mile at Millrose

In just under 200 days, on 14th August 2010, Singapore will open its doors to 3,600 of the world’s best young athletes for the first summer edition of the Youth Olympic Games (YOG). To celebrate the countdown, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has launched the visual identity of the Youth Olympic Games – “YOG-DNA”.

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IOC introduces visual identity for YOG